Definitions for evade

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evade e·vade

Spelling: [ih-veyd]

IPA: /ɪˈveɪd/

Evade is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in evade (adeev).

Definitions for evade

verb (used with object)

1. to escape from by trickery or cleverness: Synonyms: avoid, dodge. Antonyms: face, confront.
2. to get around by trickery:
3. to avoid doing or fulfilling:
4. to avoid answering directly:
5. to elude; escape:

verb (used without object)

1. to avoid doing or fulfilling something.
2. to elude or get away from someone or something by craft or slyness; escape.

Origin of evade

1505-15; Latin ēvādere to pass over, go out, equivalent to ē- e-¹ + vādere to go, walk

Examples for evade

Manlike, having raised the issue, K. would have given much to evade it.

Our mockery of celebworld helps us evade the soul-crushing decadence concealed within.

He managed to evade capture by American and Iraqi forces and has been in hiding pretty much since then.

One gets the sense that they are wearing a mask to confuse their readers, and even to evade them.

It is of no use for us to think to evade this law; neither is it a law wholly of retribution.

"You are trying to evade me, Mr. Hewson," she said, with a severity he found charming.

He tried to evade immediate payment, but on this point his creditor was peremptory.

In his nobler moods he feels that this is but to evade the difficulty.

Powers had no chance to evade it, and bailed out as his U-2 spun down to earth.

They have blocked vehicle access, but pedestrians have managed to evade them.